"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER> wrote in message
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>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>>>I bought a three pound package of organic ground beef at Costco. It's
>>>actually three, one pound packages together. I buy this all the time and
>>>we've had no problems with it. Coscto has had beef recalls but AFAIK,
>>>never this kind.
>>>
>>> I also had most of a bag of red potatoes that I bought at Costco. Baby
>>> ones. They were sprouting. So I trimmed some and filled my crockpot
>>> with them. Threw the rest away. Angela and I ate some for dinner with
>>> various meat and veg. We didn't eat the same things. Anyway... I had
>>> some left over so I decided to make an adaptation of a Southwestern
>>> style hash recipe that I got from the beef council.
>>>
>>> The recipe calls for ground beef, O'Brian potatoes (hash browns with
>>> peppers and onions) and salsa. The other difference is that I used the
>>> previously crockpot roasted potatoes. So they didn't get crispy. And
>>> the stuff didn't taste the same. Had a roasted flavor. Not entirely
>>> bad, but not something I ever want to make again.
>>>
>>> Well, we ate it and both of us got sick to our stomachs. I thought it
>>> was a fluke. With my gastroparesis, I tend to get sick easily.
>>>
>>> Then tonight we ate the rest of it. Both of us are sick again. Do you
>>> think I could have gotten bad beef? How would I know? The expiration
>>> date is Sept. 29. It looks and smells fine. The only other thing I can
>>> think of is the salsa. I had part of a jar in fridge. It was left from
>>> when Angela made dinner for me. Can't remember how long that has been
>>> but a couple of weeks at least. I used peppers from the salad bar. The
>>> same ones that went into the pasta salad. I did feel sick after eating
>>> that, but she didn't. And an organic yellow onion. The onion had no
>>> signs of mildew and looked just fine. The onions that had been in the
>>> bin had gone bad, but I did clean the bin out well before I put new
>>> onions in. It's a wooden beef.
>>>
>>> Someone is telling me to be safe and throw out the rest of the beef. Do
>>> you think I should?
>>>
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>> I'm super-cautious, especially with ground beef--so I would definitely
>> throw it out. On the other hand, I also do not eat potatoes or a lot of
>> the other things you describe, such as pasta (haven't for five years
>> since I was diagnosed, and I was able to eliminate diabetes medication in
>> March 2005 and haven't needed it since then). On the other hand, I'm T2,
>> and you may be T1?
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> I'm type 2 but have gastroparesis. I do not digest meat very well. Can
> eat only certain kinds and small amounts. My diet needs to be mostly easy
> to digest foods or I get very sick.



Julie, I would take whatever is left of that meat back to the store and get
your money back. I have done that several times and they never gave me any
grief about it.

--

Evelyn

"Even as a mother protects with her life her only child, So with a boundless
heart let one cherish all living beings." --Sutta Nipata 1.8